hi all.
i have a curious behaviour with my fat32 usb sticks.
i have two laptops: work and home.
both are on kubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.
both installed by me.
i kinda know what i do...most of the time.
if i plug the usb stick in my work kubuntu laptop all is well.
i mount the filesystem, a user directory is created under /media for that device and me as a plain user have rw permissions.
if i do the same with the same stick on my home kubuntu...
i mount the filesystem, a user directory is created under /media for that device but it belongs to root and i can't write in it.
now, i know fat32 doesn't have permissions, that i can sudo write into it, that i can fiddle with /etc/fstab and everything.
i know all that.
but i'd really like to understand where that small difference in system configuration is that makes the two otherwise supposedly identical installations behave in two different ways.
any ideas as to where i need to start looking into?
cheers.
i have a curious behaviour with my fat32 usb sticks.
i have two laptops: work and home.
both are on kubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.
both installed by me.
i kinda know what i do...most of the time.
if i plug the usb stick in my work kubuntu laptop all is well.
i mount the filesystem, a user directory is created under /media for that device and me as a plain user have rw permissions.
if i do the same with the same stick on my home kubuntu...
i mount the filesystem, a user directory is created under /media for that device but it belongs to root and i can't write in it.
now, i know fat32 doesn't have permissions, that i can sudo write into it, that i can fiddle with /etc/fstab and everything.
i know all that.
but i'd really like to understand where that small difference in system configuration is that makes the two otherwise supposedly identical installations behave in two different ways.
any ideas as to where i need to start looking into?
cheers.
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